emulation is the highest form of admiration (?)

If you listen faithfully to conversations, you start noticing the minute things...

It amuses me how people will change their inflection and tone of voice to mimic those around them-- I don't even think they do it conciously. It's like some weird subconscious way of paying homage to one person (if you listen, people tend to mimic one main person). Now that I see others doing this I catch myself doing it and it's like, "That is weird and semi-creepy and I am going to stop now."

Some people don't mimic the tone of voice and inflection, but the way people pair words together. Like, lots of people in TCC will pair words like this...instead of just saying, "That was horrifying." they say ,"That was vaguely horrifying." They take some adverb and just stick it in front of the verb and it is just so fun to say and it makes everything that much better. Okay, so lots of people do that because that is pretty much what adverbs are for, but anyhow. I guess I've had too much English.

What is incredibly fun to do is to listen to people on the phone and guess by their tone and word patterns, who their are talking to (okay, not like eavesdropping, but like being openly in earshot of someone else's phone conversation-- wait, it that eavesdropping?)If you listen to one person consistently on the phone you can tell who they are talking to by their tone of voice. Like when my mom answers the phone and it is my dad she says 'hello' in this completely unpretentious tone of voice. If my dad is talking to my next door neighbor, he magically gains an exaggerated Southern accent. If anyone answers the phone and they instantly begin answering questions about the weather then they are most likely talking to my Grandfather.

This all fascinates me to an unnecessary extent...